Choose to have a large family? Then pay for it

The Chancellor, George Osborne, in his austerity budget, could have saved millions of pounds every week if he had stopped paying family allowance after the fourth child (and, in future, reduced the payment to three) if he wants to make working being a better option than living on benefits.

The Chancellor, George Osborne, in his austerity budget, could have saved millions of pounds every week if he had stopped paying family allowance after the fourth child (and, in future, reduced the payment to three) if he wants to make working being a better option than living on benefits.

In a TV interview prior to burning to death five of his children, Mick Philpott revelled in not having to work and, instead, gleefully lived on child allowance and all the other benefits he claimed.